Quick update on the project. Here are some elevations for the cafe proposal.
For this Haiku I mimicked the logo style, creating a new font based on circles and lines. Each of the vertical lines are on the window and each of the horizontal lines the wall. When viewed at the right angle, the haiku is visible.
Before I start please note: This is an imaginary brief for a university project, no such thing has been commissioned, this is just for context of the project. I’ve been meaning to write this up as I’ve been going but the concepts have been evolving pretty quickly. I have done a few ideas and wish to share them on my blog.
Project Haiku
Commissioned by London City Council and The Poetry Society it is your job to bring poetry to the citizens and visitors of London using design.
Proposed Brief 1:
Poetry is a form of communication. It paints images and invokes feelings. Communication today is short. We chat in 140 characters. We make one sentence status’. It’s visual: a snapchat here, an instagram there. Life is hashtags, tweets and vines. Short poems are known as sonnets, even shorter poems are known as a Haiku.
The project will take a number of Haiku, that paint images and invoke feelings and place them at key locations around London. Like modern communication, their lives shall be short, fleeting, temporary.
Proposed Brief 2:
This project is to persuade and inform people of the fun that poetry can bring to the mundane. Out buying a bottle of wine for dinner, here have a poem. Drinking in the bar, have something to read once you have finished your beer. Not into alcohol, no worries we have hidden haiku on your coffee. We’re not satisfied with sneaking these little critters into adults lives, they have infiltrated our schools too. Haiku will be added to pencils and stationery that can be given to schools and children free of charge.
Proposed Brief 3:
A pop up cafe using the language of hidden haiku from PB2.
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